It's time to make prostitution legalProstitution has long been called the world's oldest profession. For as long as we have records, it is possible to find evidence of people selling sex for some kind of profit. When the settlers went about slaughtering the natives, they too enjoyed the pleasures of the local prostitutes. In the 4th century, the Athenian orator Apollodorus stated that "we have courtesans for pleasure and concubines for the daily service of our bodies, but wives for the production of legitimate offspring and for having reliable guardians of our domestic property." Yet in “progressive” America, a land where people claim to be more socially advanced, prostitution is an illegal act that harbors rapists, drug dealers, and drug addicts. Legalizing prostitution could solve many problems caused by it being illegal, but those rich old white men in Washington are unlikely to be able to make the change. They prefer to ignore the problem, occasionally making the symbolic gesture of trying to end it completely. Look at the reality, people, if prostitution has been around this long, it's not going anywhere. You can introduce more laws, increase punishment, even do like Minnesota and post those arrested for prostitution (not those just found guilty) and stick their photos on the Internet, but you won't change reality. Nevada has already seen the light… why not the rest of the country? If this country legalized prostitution, we could make a fortune and at the same time improve the health of our country and the "character" behind it all. Look at Nevada. Let's take prostitution off the streets by requiring services to be offered in a brothel or on appropriate websites. As for common prostitutes, arrest them for solicitation, but only solicitation, without veering towards prostitution anymore. Change the law to require condoms, regular health checks and AIDS testing. Where prostitution is legal in Nevada, the number of AIDS cases among workers has now dropped to 0 (where illegal prostitutes have exceeded a 25% infection rate... that's a one in four chance of paying to get AIDS) . By making it legal, prostitutes will no longer have to fear going to the police when they are raped or beaten.